The Voice of the Silence

Book

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The Voice of the Silence is a book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. It was written in Fontainebleau and first published in 1889.^[1] According to Blavatsky, it is a translation of fragments from a sacred book she encountered during her studies in the East, called "The Book of the Golden Precepts".

The book is formed of three parts:

The Voice of the Silence
The Two Paths
The Seven Portals

Reception

A reviewer for D. T. Suzuki's Eastern Buddhist Society commented: "Undoubtedly Madame Blavatsky had in some way been initiated into the deeper side of Mahayana teaching and then gave out what she deemed wise to the Western world..."^[2] In the journal of the Buddhist Society, Suzuki commented: "here is the real Mahayana Buddhism".^[3]

The 14th Dalai Lama wrote the preface for the centennial edition by Concord Grove Press.^[4]

References

^ "The Voice of the Silence by H.P. Blavatsky: Online and Printed Sources". blavatskyarchives.com.
^ Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro; Suzuki, Beatrice Lane, eds. (July 1931). "The Real H. P. Blavatsky, a Study in Theosophy and a Memoir of a Great Soul, by William Kingslands (review)". The Eastern Buddhist. Old Series. 5 (4): 377.
^ The Middle Way. 40 (2). The Buddhist Society: 90. August 1965. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)^{[full citation needed]}
^ Gyatso, Tenzin (1989). "Foreword: The Boddhisattva Path". The Voice of the Silence. By Blavatsky, H. P. (Centenary ed.). Oxford: Concord Grove Press. ISBN 9780886950460. Retrieved 2018-09-04 – via theosophy.wiki.